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KYPRIANOS M282

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British Library MS Or 5987
P. Lond. Copt. 1008

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-158: Invocation of Baktiotha for exorcism (?).
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic with Hermopolitan features
Language/dialect notes:

Sahidic (Gardner and Choat 2013: p. 107); Hermopolitan influences (Crum 1905: p. 418). See related texts for further notes.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 650
Date notes:

551-650 (Crum in Kropp 1931: p. xi) (Choat and Gardner 2013: p. 107); 401-500 (Stegemann 1936: p. 14)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Rotulus
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 195.8 Width: 13.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

77.75 x 5.375 inches (Crum 1905: p. 418)
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, cut to be housed in three glass frames.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 158 lines. Text written transversa charta.
Hand:

134-144 in a different hand
(Crum 1905: p. 418). Ll. 136-47 are written in a different script” (Choat and Gardner 2013: p. 107). Ligatured.

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

London, British Library
Collection History:

Acquired in 1901 with group of papyri, largely from from Ashmunein (Choat and Gardner 2013: p.107)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Choat, Malcolm, and Iain Gardner. A Coptic handbook of ritual power (p. Macq. I 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, p. 107-114.

Crum,Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London, 1905, p. 418-420, no. 1008.

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 22-28, no. D.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 149-160, no. 43.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 129-133, no. 70.
General:

Burns, Dylan M. “Magical, Coptic, Christian: The Great Angel Eleleth and the ‘Four Luminaries’ in Egyptian Literature of the First Millenium CE”. In The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt, edited by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, p. 153.

Camplani, Alberto. “‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani’. Pluralità dei linguiaggi religiosi e loro rielaborazione rituale in alcune preghiere magihche copte,” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 76.1 (2010): p. 146-147.

Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Sethians and Their Texts in Christian Egypt in the 4th and 5th Centuries.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 86 (2020): 109-110.

Stegemann, Viktor. Koptische Paläographie : 25 Tafeln zur Veranschaulichung der Schreibstile koptischer Schriftdenkmäler auf Papyrus, Pergament und Papier für die Zeit der III.-XIV. Jahrhumderts : mit einem Versuch einer Stilgeschichte der koptischen Schrift. Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag von F. Bilabel, 1936, p. 14.

Trismegistos ID:

98061

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

70
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

206

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

1.D, 2.43

 CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

EL (20/9/2018); MPS (2/7/2019); KD (27/11/2019); EL (2/9/2020); KD (16/3/2021); MPS (12/1/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M282," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m282. Accessed on 16/12/2025

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